Public knowledge of the positive effects of daycare may put pressure on government figures to increase social spending on child care, therefore the research is very important.
Research on day-care should reflect positive and negative effects. These results are relevant to government bodies that draft social policies, but their conclusions should not be based solely on one study. Perferably many longitudinal studies.
Yes, there is political implications of this research as if the research shows positive effects of day care, it may be possible to get more funding and possible programs added to day care. (ie: reading sessions) If the research shows for example, better cognitive abilities later in life due to the effects of daycare this could affect the funding and programs in daycare facilities tofacilitate improving children's learning. These results in turn would therefore be relevant to government bodies that draft social policies, as adjustments in the budget and additional programs may be looked into.
Yes, there is political implications of this research as if the research shows positive effects of day care, it may be possible to get more funding and possible programs added to day care. (ie: reading sessions) If the research shows for example, better cognitive abilities later in life due to the effects of daycare this could affect the funding and programs in daycare facilities tofacilitate improving children's learning. These results in turn would therefore be relevant to government bodies that draft social policies, as adjustments in the budget and additional programs may be looked into.
Actually I kind of worry about this type of research. More and more studies show that, at least for ordinary children attending rather ordinary day care, the experience has little impact on them. I'm worried that the government will say, "Hey, day care doesn't hurt, higher quality and more expensive day care doesn't make much difference, so let's spend as little $ as possible on day care." Policy makers are more concerned with cost:benefit analysis than what's "right" and they may see diminishing returns for the $ and not want to pump much $ into government sponsored day care.
The results are very important to the government bodies that draft social policies.It could influence how child care funds are distributed. Therefore, it is very important that several studies are done and the results studies carefully.
There are a number of political implications in this study that may contribute to future social policies. The results in the study indicate that children who receive out of the home day-care have increased cognitive and verbal, and math abililites. Therefore, governments should devote a larger portion of the budget to provide increased day-care services.
Research such as this does provide political implications. Governments may use studies such as these to decide the distribution and amount of money to be given to various social programs. Replication of these types of studies is important to ensure that the government allots money to programs that are valid. Also, knowing who sponsored the research would be important to ensure that the researcher did not interpret his or her results in a biased way.
Lori,
Yes there are political implications of research on the positive effects of day-care. If research proves that there are benefits to children who have gone to daycare beginning at a young age there is value in looking at supporting these daycares. Many mothers reluctantly leave their careers due to pressure to stay at home and raise their children. If children are just as well, or even better off, in daycare these woman could continue their careers and allow child care workers raise their children. The government bodies that draft social policies would find these results most relevant as they could be instrumental in seeing that daycares receive proper funding.
Yes there are political implications,because the more research that shows that day-care is benificial the more government funding we might recieve, hopefully.
The are huge political implications if the results of day-care are positive. It is one more argument for us to have a public day-care system that would make day-care more available for low income families, and give those families a chance to work full-time and bring more money into the home.
can't i just find out about the effects of daycare from someone who knows?
By Plamondonj on Tuesday, March 24, 1998 - 02:24 pm:
By Christy Filgate on Tuesday, March 24, 1998 - 02:36 pm:
By Christy Filgate on Tuesday, March 24, 1998 - 02:36 pm:
By Connie on Tuesday, March 24, 1998 - 02:38 pm:
By DonnaR on Tuesday, March 24, 1998 - 02:38 pm:
By Darren Behr on Tuesday, March 24, 1998 - 02:44 pm:
By Lori on Tuesday, March 24, 1998 - 02:45 pm:
By Connie V on Tuesday, March 24, 1998 - 02:48 pm:
Your last point about knowing who sponsored the research is a really good one. Imagine if some group who had a vested interest in their type of day care did the research and found that, yes, indeed, their day care was "better." Would you believe the results???
By Lynne on Tuesday, March 24, 1998 - 02:50 pm:
By Dupuis on Tuesday, March 24, 1998 - 03:01 pm:
By Keri on Tuesday, March 24, 1998 - 03:48 pm:
By Philly Phil on Saturday, November 7, 1998 - 05:16 pm:
are french fries bad for someone to throw at their kids in day care? they don't hurt and all that. i could really go for a good french fried two year old, i mean, um...... isn't McDonalds supposed to be america's best fries? did someone say McDonalds?